The antient testimony of the primitive Christians, and martyrs of Jesus Christ, revived, against tythes. Or, A relation of the sufferings of William Dobson, of Slade-end, in the parish of Brightwell in Barkshire, : because for conscience-sake he could not pay tythes unto Ralph Whistler, tyth-monger of the same parish; and for thirteen years was much exercised by imprisonment, and loss of goods: and the last day of the 3d. month call'd May 1677. dyed a prisoner for the same. To which is annexed, a short account of the sufferings of Michael Reynolds of Farringdon in the same county, because he could not for conscience-sake, pay tythes to Robert Pye

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